Village Project

The Second Project I am presenting on the blog in preparation of my trip to Malawi this summer is the Village Project.



I'm going to plead with you to stop and think for a second... Ready?

Imagine This... You have no living relatives! None! No one to take care of you.

James 1:27(a) says: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.

In 1996 Gardiner Gentry left America and followed a calling to Malawi, Africa to establish churches for the Malawian people. And in the process one great need kept facing them. The Children! There are more than 2 million "orphans" in Malawi! God calls them "fatherless". Good Samaritan calls 97 of them "our children".

Each of these children has a unique story of heartbreak, tragedy and loss. The Lord has allowed Good Samaritan an opportunity to give these children a “New Hope”, not only a place where they could for the first time eat daily but, have clothing, education and medical treatment. And even more importantly an opportunity for eternal life as each one is taught daily about Jesus the Savior and God’s love for them.

When I return to Malawi in August, the staff of Good Samaritan and I plan to do something very unique. Our children came from multiple villages all over Malawi, we will visit 5 of these villages. While in each village the Children will share “their story”. The story of how by circumstance they were left without physical parents, but how then God gave them a “New Family” both at Good Samaritan and also in Heaven.

Next we will then present God’s plan of salvation through the gospel.

In a land where poor in commonplace, the housing is a a mud hut with grass roof. Where people go days without food. Sometimes eating rotten food found on the side of the road. There is a great want a hunger that cannot be filled by things physical.

Finally we will deliver "Care Packages”. Each care package will contain household goods and food such as salt, sugar, soap etc. These villages are extremely poor and the people go days without food and weeks and months without supplies.

Through the Village Project we would not only meet a physical need but also a spiritual need. We will film this project to create a documentary to show Americans the hunger of the Malawian people. Yes, why they are physically hungry, they are also very hungry for the Word of God and this is that “open door”.

The Need!

In the World we live in everything takes money, while this is a burden God has laid on my heart, I cannot do these things I have said alone. Can I ask you if you would offer to send $5.00 or $10.00, could I ask you if you had it to send $100.00 or $200.00? The cost for supplying “Care Packages” to each village is about $700.00 US dollars. That is $3500.00 for all 5 villages while I know that seems like a lot imagine this…..

A child, all-alone, going days without food, eating a rotten banana peel or boiling a stick because no one is there to help him or her. Imagine a child all alone…. and then a then a man, a woman or even a child looking to them and handing them a Gospel tract or a Bible and presenting to them the Bread of Life.

I am asking you, if you would allow God to put it on your heart to Help!

Every donation is Tax-Deductible. Please send your donation to:
Lighthouse Baptist Church
C/O The Malawi Village Project/Good Samaritan
1345 Skyline Dr. Lemon Grove, CA 91945

Please make the check out to Lighthouse Baptist Church and write Malawi Village Project on the memo portion of the check.
The money needs to be collected by July 31st.